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Brutal Choreographies : Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood
author
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Bouson, J. Brooks.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870238450
print isbn13
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9780870238451
ebook isbn13
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9780585083148
language
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English
subject
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor,--1939- --Political and social views, Feminism and literature--Canada--History--20th century, Women and literature--Canada--History--20th century, Psychoanalysis and literature, Narration (Rhetoric)
publication date
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1993
lcc
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PR9199.3.A8Z56 1993eb
ddc
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813/.54
subject
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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor,--1939- --Political and social views, Feminism and literature--Canada--History--20th century, Women and literature--Canada--History--20th century, Psychoanalysis and literature, Narration (Rhetoric)
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Brutal Choreographies
Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood
J. Brooks Bouson
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Copyright 1993 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 93-2964 ISBN 0-87023-845-0 Designed by Mary Mendell Set in Galliard by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bouson, J. Brooks. Brutal choreographies: oppositional strategies and narrative design in the novels of Margaret Atwood / J. Brooks Bouson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-845-0 (alk. paper) 1. Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- Political and social views. 2. Feminism and literatureCanadaHistory20th century. 3. Women and literatureCanadaHistory20th century. 4. Psychoanalysis and literature. 5. Narration (Rhetoric) I. Title. PR9199.3.A8Z56 1993 813'.54dc20 93-2964 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
Page v
For my mother
Page vii
Contents
Preface
ix
1 Introduction
1
2 The Edible Woman's Refusal to Consent to Femininity
15
3 Cultural Feminism, Female Madness and Rage in Surfacing
39
4 Lady Oracle's Plot against the Gothic Romance Plot
63
5 Domestic and Sexual Warfare in Life Before Man
87
6 The Brutal Reality of Power and Sexual Politics in Bodily Harm
111
7 The Misogyny of Patriarchal Culture in The Handmaid's Tale
135
8 The Power Politics of Women's Relationships in Cat's Eye
159
Works Cited
185
Index
197
Page ix
Preface
Canadian author Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) has written best sellersThe Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eyeand her novels and poetry have given rise to a regular Atwood industry among academic literary critics. A novelist with both popular and literary appeal, Atwood provokes her readers to confront issues that are of special importance to women, such as domestic and sexual violence, pornography, eating disorders, mastectomy, and problems with body-self image. And in all of her fiction, Atwoodwho is deeply concerned about the uneven and potentially damaging power relations that occur in the parent-child situation, heterosexual romance, and female friendshiprelentlessly focuses attention on the gender and power politics that govern women's lives.
My aim in Brutal Choreographies is to offer a chronological reading of Atwood's novels, clarifying the relationships among the novels and providing a close analysis of their psychological and political concerns and preoccupations. I place emphasis on Atwood's family and romance dramas, her evolving story of the female self-in-crisis, her novelistic subversion of romantic love ideology, and her ongoing critique of gender and power politics. I also consider the oppositional strategies used in Atwood's novels: their punitive plotting and their enactments of female revenge fantasies; their dialogic resistance to romantic discourse; and their self-conscious manipulation and sabotage of the romance plot and other traditional narrative forms and formulas. Because Atwood does not shun what she calls the "story of the disaster which is the world" ("End to Audience" 350), the stories she tells are often brutal, portraying female victimization at the hands of the male lover or husband, the mother, or the best girlfriend. But if her novels have the power to
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